Dialup 🌍

Specific sounds in the credits section. Discovered through freesound.org, freemusicarchive.org, and incompetech.com/music/, which has great stuff if you dig deep! ✨

We’re really lucky that so many folks on Dialup are older than 70 (as well as over 80! And under 30!—and really all over the spectrum). It’s rare to find a place on the ‘net with intergenerational conversations that have depth and connection. Talking to elders is so important.

Do you see this screen on your Account page? (There's a donate menu you can find in the upper-left hand of app with the 👤 icon.)

📝New guestbook entries! Featuring a 75 y.o. COVID survivor, a spacecraft sensor engineer, a lawyer, a photographer, and more—talking on the phone. 📞💙 You can read and submit stories about calls within the app. ✨

📝”He’s a waffle for breakfast kind of guy. Unfortunately, I’m not. Apart from our differences, we still have one thing we do agree on: that there should be harsher punishment for police brutality.”

📝 “I spoke with a man who’s also going through a cancer battle, and empathy and solidarity formed a good foundation for the rest of the conversation.”

📝”An Israeli woman told me about the Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika and narrated a poem of hers, translated into English. It was beautiful.”

📝New guestbook entries! “We discussed the possibility of a Biden presidency and my hobby of hand-feeding squirrels“

The story about the ice fisher resurfaces with some good wisdom. 🧊🎣🙌 “It’s always successful, in that I get outside for a few hours of peace. But it’s 100% unsuccessful if you mean catching anything after decades of trying.”

We launched a ~guestbook~! 📞✍️📘 These are short stories from people who met each other on a Dialup call. You can read / write them within the app. Adding new entries each week.

Welcome to the sound of the internet feeling *~n e w~* ! 💿💾💿🔊💿💾💿 #voicetweets #VoiceTwitter – at San Francisco, CA

Lockdown delight! Full moon call tonight! dialup.com/moon

A journalist in the Netherlands for @nrc, Manouk van Egmond, wrote about their experience on Dialup. (Translated from Dutch)

She talks to a lady in Mississippi whose neighbors are barbecuing nonstop. 👏 virtualbalcony.weebly.com/bl…

Someone on QuarantineChat @bigvegannerd is writing about their phone experiences. I love that this person convinces Mary to write haikus. 💙